366 Project: Week 29

Sunday (Day 204)
July 22, 2012

Playing sardines in the photo booth at the theater. Clearly, we didn't all fit. . .but we were crying from laughing so hard by the time we finished. Good times. lol

Weekend Checklist

Girl time: Check.
Party: Check
Lots of Rum: Check
Successfully opened a bottle of champagne without spillage (thanks Frasier): Check
Sleepover(s): Check
Shopping: Check
Batman: Check
Magic Mike: Check
Acting like we're in high school: Check. I think. We weren't in high school, so we don't really know. ;)

I'd say we've had a pretty good girls weekend. I'll be home within 24 hours, and have to resume normal, responsible adult activities. . .so no more Fireball with breakfast. lol

Monday (Day 205)
July 23, 2012

Why, hello Dallas.

Tuesday (Day 206)

July 24, 2012

When cooking with Aimee, one should always wear shoes. . .lol

K: Mom, the baby's awake.
Me: He hasn't been asleep yet.
K: Well, it seems like he doesn't want to.

She wants me to go get him, so they can both come downstairs and play. lol

Kadence was demanding that Korvin "Freeze!" That works on babies about as well as it works on criminals that superheros are trying to catch.

 

Wednesday (Day 207)

July 25, 2012

She wouldn't listen during her swimming lesson. . .so she had to have a time out.

Korvin flipped off of the couch. . .then got up and walked off like that's what he intended to do. Boys. . .

Thursday (Day 208)

July 26, 2012

Won a gold (participation) medal in swimming today. ;)

Friday (Day 209)

July 27, 2012

We're now working on seasonally appropriate fashion styles. . .

I let Kadence stay up to watch the opening ceremony with me. She had no idea why I kept laughing, and when I explained it, she still had no idea what I was talking about...but she laughed anyway. :)

Saturday (Day 210)

July 28, 2012

Um. . .ok. I'm glad they weren't advertising it as a deal. Lol

366 Project: Week 28

Sunday (Day 197)

July 15, 2012

 

She apparently fell asleep while playing her Leapster.

 

 

Monday (Day 198)
July 16, 2012

We've got some dead spots in the yard that need some extra water. . .and the kids wanted to go outside and play. Win-win. :)

 

Who says you shouldn't play with your food? Especially when you've made the perfect finger sized hole right down the middle, and it makes a really cool squeaky sound. When he needed to dig deeper, he'd bite off a chunk, and just keep digging. LOL

Tuesday (Day 199)

July 17, 2012

Korvin has to have a turn with the brush after I've finished brushing KK's hair. Then after he's finished brushing KK's hair, he brushes his teeth. ;)

 

Kadence was "reading" her Brave Leapster book to me. . .but she was trying to do it with Merida's accent, and it was KILLING me. LOL

Korvin has now discovered farting for sport.

 

Wednesday (Day 200)

July 18, 2012

First trip to the library. . .cause it's cheaper than the bookstore. ;) I told her we were going somewhere special. I didn't tell her where we were going because it was a surprise. When we got there she asked "Are we in Canada??"

Thursday (Day 201)

July 19, 2012

Kadence got in trouble this morning for drawing in one of my music books. Shortly after that while I was doing laundry, she took a crayon into the playroom, and drew all over EVERY wall. Don't worry. . .she's still alive. . .because Daddy came home to help enforce punishment. When he asked her what happened, she started crying and kept saying "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" Yes, because you just ACCIDENTALLY lost control of the crayon that wasn't supposed to leave the table, and it just went and colored the entire playroom. . .

As part of her punishment, she lost all of her Tangled/Rapunzel/art things indefinitely, she no longer HAS a playroom, and she the had to scrub the walls with a toothbrush. . .but that last one was too much fun. . .so she had to vacuum the entire playroom (she's scared of the vacuum.) Eventually, she's going to figure out how this works. . .since she has yet to win at this.

 

Me: Look! I caught a baby! Can we keep him?
Kadence: Yes. As long as we take care of him, and feed him the right food...he can have blueberries, and bananas, and he needs white mommy milk. Those are the kinds of food that he eats. We can call him Korvin.

 

 

Friday (Day 202
July 20, 2012

Today's picture is brought to you by the letters "e" and "f." The plane was somewhere in Louisiana when I saw this. Pretty cool. I had to get up at 3:30am to go to the airport to hop on a plane to meet up with some friends in Nashville for a girls weekend. . .of course, after being up with a very unhappy, teething Korvin several times before that, I'd gotten VERY little sleep. I'd hoped to sleep on the plane, but that didn't happen. After I saw this and took a picture, I was rather glad I wasn't sleeping. :)

Saturday (Day 203)
July 21, 2012

I'm legal. . .it's legal. . .let's party. Lol I was quite amused to find that not only is moonshine now legal in Tennessee, it's rather expensive. ;)

Conversations with Kadence

This post is from February 19. . .it never posted for some reason, so I'm posting it now.

Since ketchup is made from tomatoes, mustard must be made from bananas. -4 year old logic

"This part of my head is 4, just like I am!!" -Kadence (pointing to her forehead)

Korvin was crying. . .Kadence got her "Doctor Who glasses" and as she was putting them on she told him "Don't cry; Doctor Who is here." 

Kadence was trying to convince me that she was supposed to eat all of the Annie's cheddar bunny mix herself. . .she "read" the back of the box to me. According to her, it says "You're supposed to eat all the prentzles, and all the bunnies. Not your mommy. Not your father either. Just you."

She randomly asked "How did you make me?"
Me: We'll talk about it when you're older.
K: But who did you make me with?
Me: Daddy.
K: But who else?
Me: Jesus. Actually, Jesus made you. Mommy and Daddy just, uh, helped.
K: But how?
Me: We'll talk about it when you're older.
I can't WAIT for this topic to come up again. . .

She kissed my leg and told me "I kissed a part of you. You have enough hearts. I kissed you so they would stay in. Period." I asked her how many hearts I had. . .she says I have 12.

She informed me that she wanted to go stay with Uncle Natie, because he's her Uncle, and he takes care of her. She said "I want Uncle Natie to take care of me instead." I asked, "Instead of what?" She said "Instead of you and Daddy. I don't need a Mommy and a Daddy. I just want Uncle Natie to take care of me, because I love him." She's been annoyed with Mommy and Daddy lately because she hasn't been getting her way. . .I didn't want to crush her, so I didn't tell her that Uncle Natie would have less patience for that than her Mommy and Daddy. :)

She called Nina and Papa to thank them for the Valentine's day card they sent. She serenaded them with a song she made up. I nearly died laughing. She's been obsessed with Christmas, and can't wait for it to come again. Part of one of her songs she sang to them went something along the lines of "And Christmas will come again, after Halloween. And everyone will get a baby for Christmas, except for Mommy, because she already has one. I was a baby once. I was in Mommy's tummy. She got married, and then I was in her tummy after she got married. Then I wasn't in her tummy anymore because I was a baby. And Mommy wasn't married anymore. . ." then she said "Sometimes that song makes me sad." Not sure where that last part came from. . .I guess I should just be glad she didn't go through the birthing process in her song. LOL

"Mommy, when I get married I want to grow a baby boy in my tummy. I want to have 2 babies. I want to have a girl baby and name her Adyline, and have a boy baby and name him Flash Korvin."

I told Kadence that she and Korvin were staying with Grandma Patsy, and Aunt Martha while Mommy and Daddy went to a hotel for the night. She said "Oh, I like Martha. She's super swell." 

Kadence farted. I looked over at her, and she informed me "That was nothing. That was just a potato head in my butt, and it popped." I didn't even know how to respond to that.

366 Project: Week 27

Sunday (Day 190)

July 8, 2012

 Watching The Amazing Spiderman. Parts were a little scary for her, but towards the end when Spiderman was beating up the Lizard, she yelled "Yeah! That's what I'm talkin bout!" That's my girl. ;)

Monday (Day 191)

July 9, 2012

 Yeah. . .she wasn't tired. . .she didn't need a nap. . .which is why she passed out on her bedroom floor. lol

Tuesday (Day 192)

July 10, 2012

I was feeding Korvin a banana, and I had to go get Kadence something. So I set it on the table, and while I was taking care of her, he managed to get it (he's gotten way too tall,) and ran off with it to do it all by himself.

Korvin just swiped a Larabar off of the table that Kadence had put there when she decided she didn't want to eat it all. He scarfed it down, and acted like he was getting away with something. It's the equivalent of candy around here. lol
 

Wednesday (Day 193)

July 11, 2012

Larabar = happy baby

He's also figured out how to climb up on the ottoman/couch without help. :(

Kadence: You're acting like a weird, mean girl! I don't get to decide what you're going to do, so you don't get to decide what I'm going to do!

Wrong move kid. Your choices were 1. obey and we can all be happy, or 2. disobey and suffer the consequences. There wasn't, isn't, and never will be a 3rd option of refusing said consequences. Check the rulebook. Game over.

This morning she asked what would happen to her and Korvin if anything happened and Patrick and I died. I told her that if anything happened to mommy and daddy, someone else in the family would come take care of them. She said they might not know that we were dead, so she would just take Korvin and go live next door with Charlie. I'd like to know why a 4 year old is planning on what to do if both of her parents die. . .and I'm slightly concerned. lol

Thursday (Day 194)

July 12, 2012

Who needs eyes in the back of your head when you have Tiana. . .

Korvin tells on Kadence when he's mad at her. Yesterday, he came to me crying and saying "KK! KK! KK!" I said "Was KK mean to you?" He said "Yeah! Bad girl! KK!"

This morning Patrick was changing Korvin's diaper, and he didn't want to be still, so Patrick asked KK to give him something to play with. She gave Korvin some legos, and he said "Good girl! KK!"

Well, I'm glad we've got that down. lol
 

Friday (Day 195)

July 13, 2012

Since he can climb up on the couch now, she has nowhere to go to keep her things away from him. . .so she gave up. lol

K: When you die, can you leave your phone so I can call someone to come take care of us?
Me: I won't be taking my phone with me when I die. I promise.
K: Don't forget. If you start to die, make sure you leave your phone.
Me: Are you planning on me dying?
K: Yes. And when Daddy dies, I'll call Nina and Papa.

That's comforting.

K: When I grow up, the baby is going to be my baby girl's daddy.
Me: Um, no. That's not how that works.
K: Well who will the baby be a daddy to?
Me: HIS babies.
K: Well, who's going to be MY baby's daddy?
Me: The person that you marry.
K: Well who am I going to marry?
Me: I don't know.
K: Well, maybe I can marry Uncle Nathan.
Me: Yeah, that's not going to work either. 
K: Well then WHO am I going to marry??
 

Saturday (Day 196)

July 14, 2012

 

A few days ago, Patrick wanted to bring me flowers. He knew better than to get flowers that weren't fair trade, and he didn't have access to fair trade flowers at the time. . .so he bought organic celery, and tied a bow around it. Works for me. lol. . .but it's time to eat the celery now, so we had to take a picture before it disappeared. :)

Yesterday Kadence taught Korvin how to say "apple." Today it's "butt." She says she didn't teach it to him. . .he taught it to "hisself." It's a good thing she doesn't know any actual bad words to teach her parrot. lol

Korvin figure out how to open the piano today. That's all I have to say about it. ;)

366 Project: Week 26

Sunday (Day 183)

July 1, 2012

Korvin kept propping his foot up on the table, so Patrick told him he wasn't Captain Morgan. Kadence thought that was hilarious.

Monday (Day 184)

July 2, 2012

Kadence's new Responsibility Chart. There's one in particular she insisted had to be on there. . .and sadly, I had to agree, since she always refuses. . .guess which one? LOL

Kadence was eating an almond butter and jelly sandwich. Korvin walked over next to her and I heard her say "Excuse me sir, have you ever had a sandwich?" I started laughing, which distracted her and she dropped part of it. Next thing I hear is "The baby has part of my sandwich, and HE'S EATING IT!" (He's not allowed to have grains yet.) I ran over, got it away from him and threw it in the trash, and went to the fridge to get him some cheese. I turned back around to find him fishing the part of a sandwich out of the trash, and taking another bite. He'd never had a sandwich. . .guess he really wanted one, since she asked. lol

Tuesday (Day 185)

July 3, 2012

First time using a spoon to feed himself. He did pretty well, but then he realized it was still faster to just use his hands. So he did that. :)

 

Wednesday (Day 186)

July 4, 2012

 After Patrick got her ready for bed, he had Kadence come sing "So Long, Farewell" before going up to bed. She couldn't remember the words he told her to sing. It was pretty funny, as you can tell. :)

Patrick: I need you to calm down, and take a few deep breaths. It's almost time for bed.
Kadence: OK! (starts hyperventilating)

Thursday (Day 187)

July 5, 2012

 This is his spot. . .

Friday (Day 188)

July 6, 2012

Korvin's 1st pair of shoes. . .which terrified him. Lol. That's what I get for buying the kid shoes just because daddy would like them.

Saturday (Day 189)

July 7, 2012

"I ♥ Dad. . .he was tasty!"

Someday, daddy will learn when quiet means something bad. . .lol. While mommy was in the shower and Kadence and daddy were watching cartoons, Korvin was busy with his own little project. Upon seeing him looking like this when Mommy found him, Kadence started crying and screaming because something was wrong with her brother. Upon further examination, it was discovered that he hadn't turned into a zombie baby, and everyone would live. He had just found one of Kadence's red crayons that had somehow gotten away from the other crayons, and he sat behind the couch and ate it (and cut tooth #8) while no one was watching.

366 Project: Week 25

Sunday (Day 176)
June 24, 2012

Lying on the floor playing with his Legos.  It's a very important time in a little boy's life when he finally figures out how to fit legos together. :)

Also got tooth #7 today!

Monday (Day 177)
June 25, 2012

Kadence decided they needed to take a pretend nap together in the Pack n Play.

Tuesday (Day 178)

June 26, 2012

Dinner. . .we're high class. :) Seriously though, best sangria I've ever had. Besides taste, it's organic, and only 120 calories per serving. Oh yeah!

Korvin was getting frustrated with the legos, and started yelling "KK! KK! KK!" until Kadence went to help him, and showed him how to do it again. ♥

Kadence wanted to FaceTime chat with someone before bed, so we were going to try to call Uncle Nathan. She went to her toy computer, pushed her face up to it and said "Uncle Natie, we're going to call you. Computer, ACTIVATE!"

Wednesday (Day 179)

June 27, 2012

Poor baby foot. :(
Hand-foot-mouth disease: Don't lick everyone/everything, and you might not get it. Unfortunately, Korvin didn't follow that advice, but the rest of you should. lol

Korvin peed pretty much as soon as I changed him. I asked him "Why did you have to go and pee right after I just changed your diaper?" Kadence said "I guess he just needed to. Maybe he forgot." LOL

  

Thursday (Day 180)

June 28, 2012

Now when it sounds like an elephant is jumping right over our bed, (his room is right above ours) we can see what he's doing. $50 from woot.com :)

Friday (Day 181)

June 29, 2012

 Sleepover! One of my BFFs is a photographer. Kit's done most of my professional pictures. She lives 4 hours away, so I have to book her months in advance. :) She and her son Konner came for Korvin's birthday, and so she could do Korvin's 1 year pictures.

Saturday (Day 182)

June 30, 2012

Korvin is 1 year old today! He had a little fun with his balloon before his sister knocked it off the string and sent it to the ceiling.

He and Alice posed for some pictures at his party. Allie is 2 days older than Korvin, and has been sharing her mommy's milk with him. She wanted a hug. He didn't. So she tried to throw him off the couch. ;)

Dear Korvin,
1 year ago I was planning on going to get a manicure. Instead, you decided to stop faking everyone out, and finally make your grand entrance. That day is filled with some of my very best memories. I'd do it all again for you in a heart beat. You're the most amazing, sweet, and funny little guy. If I were given the option to choose everything I want in my own little man, I'd choose you every time.
Love, Mommy